Total 23+8=31 ministers =0 D 5 Phd's -- 16% 3 doctors- 10% 3 Engineers-10% 5 lawyers- 16% 3 ex.Army-16% Not a bad mix, but time will tell what this mix will produce in the next 5 years. I am now worry that few of the elected MPs from AL already started corruption by taking TK 65 Lacs from another Businessman for UpoZila Election nomination. I won't name this AL MP but I know her and very close to me. This is very disturbing avenue which already started in Bangladesh. They still didn't wait Honeymoon to be over yet. Regards, M. M. Chowdhury
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@q8.com> wrote:
From: Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@q8.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Portfolios of Ministers
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 2:31 AM
Portfolios of ministers, state ministers
Bdnews24.com . Dhaka 7/1/09 Prime minister Sheikh Hasina sprang surprises as she named Tuesday a 32-strong team, dropping almost her party's entire policymaking presidium from the cabinet.
In a move termed revolutionary by some in a 1000-strong audience at the Bangabhaban swearing-in, Hasina appointed Dipu Moni foreign minister, and another street veteran Sahara Khatun home minister.
Of the 32, as many as 25 are newcomers to the corridors of power.
Twenty-four of them will hold cabinet rank, while the rest eight will be junior ministers.
Khulna trade union leader Munnujan Sufian was made a state minister.
Matia Chowdhury, only presidium member to have made it, will be agriculture minister and Syed Ashraful Islam, son of 1971 war-time acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, will helm the local government.
AMA Muhit is finance minister, an office he had held way back in the 1980s.
Liberation war hero AK Khandker returned to the cabinet as planning minister after nearly 20 years, having served in the same ministry in the 1980s.
Education was given to former communist leader Nurul Islam Nahid.
Abul Kalam Azad, a Jamalpur MP, became information minister.
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, father-in-law of Hasina's daughter Saima Wajed, got two ministries — labour and employment and expatriate welfare.
Dilip Barua became industries minister.
Tanjim Ahmed, better known as Sohel Taj, son of the Mujibnagar government prime minister Tajuddin Ahmed, was made state minister for home.
GM Quader, a Jatiya Party presidium member and brother of HM Ershad, will be civil aviation and tourism minister.
Law went to Hasina's attorney Shafiq Ahmed, and telecommunications to Raziuddin Ahmed Razu.
Shafiq and two others — Dilip Barua and AL's science secretary Yafes Osman (state minister) — are the ones filling up the technocrat quota.
Physician AFM Ruhul Haq will steer health, retired Lt Col Faruq Khan commerce, Abdul Latif Siddiqui jute and textiles, Ramesh Chandra Sen water resources.
Enamul Huq Mustafa Shahid of Habiganj was put in charge of social welfare.
Rezaul Karim Hira got land, Afsarul Amin shipping, Abdul Latif Biswas fisheries and livestock,
Dipankar Talukdar, who was a state minister for Chittagong Hill Tract Affairs in the 1996-2001 AL government, will return to the ministry again.
Retired captain Tajul Islam was given liberation war affairs, Hasan Mahmud foreign affairs, Fizar forest and environment, Sufian labour, Ahad Ali Sarker youth and sports, Yafes Osman science and ICT.
The prime minister retained energy and power, housing and public works, women's affairs, religious affairs, armed forces division.
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